L'idée est sympa: If you can accidentally text your Grandma on New Year's Eve, what else can go wrong? Condoms break. Pills are forgotten. Back Up Your Birth Control.Don't Drop the Ball: Statistics show that New Year's Eve is not a good night for birth control use. Condoms break. Pills are forgotten. In fact, emergency contraception sales more than DOUBLE in the days right after New Year's, according to January 2009 sales statistics provided by Teva Pharmaceuticals, makers of Plan B One Step (the one-pill version of emergency contraception).